Cap. 415 Art. 35Application of topography right only in respect of creator’s own intellectual effort.

The right conferred by article 32 shall apply only in respect of semiconductor product topographies which are the result of the creator’s own intellectual effort and are not commonplace in the semiconductor industry but shall not extend to any concept, process, system, technique or encoded information embodied in the topography: Provided that where the semiconductor product topography consists of elements that are commonplace in the semiconductor industry, it shall be protected only to the extent that the combination of such elements, taken as a whole, fulfils the above-mentioned conditions.